Life Lessons I've Learned About Friends!

I think my best quality is also a defect.

I am a friend, a true friend,thick, thin and til the end, true blue and tight like glue,ride and die kinda chica!

If I'm with you,I got your back,I'll fight the good fight and then some.

Unfortunately as times goes on you realize that everyone is not like you,especially some of your friends.

That's when your start to separate your associates from your acquaintences and so called friends from true friends.

I have an ex-co-worker,whom I always considered as a friend,we lost contact,when I retired from the postal service.Which I find funny since my home number is the same and will remain the same til I'm no longer living.Anyway,we sort of reconnected on FB,and afew times she's called me.

But I started to notice she only calls me when she needs or wants something from me.

Never a call how are you? Miss seeing you or chatting with you?

No,it's always can you do this or that for me? Can you let me hold $50 I'll give you back $100 when I get my check?

I've done these types of things for friends and family all my life,it's no big deal. If I have it,you're welcome to it,just don't take my kindness for weakness.

With that being said,I've given down payments on homes to relati'ves,never to be invited to visit.I've paid for hotel rooms for so called friends with not as much as a Thank You for payment.I've put groceries in homes,paid uttility bills and so much more and some of these same people do not speak to me today.

It's really hilarious when I look at it,how many people I have allowed to come into my life and cause turmoil,with their only agenda is to not see me soar to my highest.Thinking that their constant mud slinging and lies will fall upon listening ears and make me look bad.

Not worried about that at all.

I know who and what I am and exactly what I stand for.

I'm true to my God,myself and my family. I have friends that are closer than family so I count them as family and respect them as such as they do me.

That's the key R-E-S-P-E-C-T!

First have high respect for yourself,carry yourself as such and no one can approach you with petty things that are beneath you,because you will not tolerate it. And if they try,don't entertain the thought to bring yourself down to their level.

Let go and let God!

I'll only know that whatever someone took from me or thought they took from me,God returned triplefold!

Now,don't get me wrong,I am far from perfect,and perfect isn't something I'm striving to be.

I,like many have hoped that people fall off bridges,get hit by cars, and other ugly acts happen to our haters,hey we're only human.

And it makes for a good laugh.

This is really the space you should be in.

The space of being your own bestfriend. You would never cause harm to yourself or your loved ones. Don't allow anyone else too.

Anyone that cause you drama,pain or any discomfort isn't for you.

People who want the best for you,will not do any of the above.

Know your worth,except nothing less,hold your head high and keep moving forward in your life.

The sooner you except these things the sooner you can move forward and keep it moving.

1) Everyone will not be happy for your success.

2) Some people are just watching and waiting for you to fail.

3) When you're at your best and shining,some will try to tarnish your shine.

4) Let God handle these petty issues,then keep moving forward to your destiny.

Quoting Bey, "Me,Myself and I,that what all got in the end,that's what I found out. And it ain't no need to cry,I took a vow that from now on I'm gonna be my own bestfriend!"